Society of Australian Genealogists in Sydney, Australia | Genealogist

Society of Australian Genealogists

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9247 3953

Address: 120 Kent Street 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sag.org.au

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25.01.2022 Looking for something to read this weekend? Members can search and download past issues of Descent (to December 2018) and back issues of The Australian Genealogist from our website which also details updates to contributions information: https://sag.org.au/Our-Magazine-Descent

25.01.2022 The recording from this Friday afternoon's Hang Out is now available - a few criminals and scoundrels and cherished family that have been the subject of members' research. Thanks to Sandra, Chris, Cathy, Jackie, Jill, Lorraine, Kerry, Vanessa, Lillian, Jennie, and Leonie!

23.01.2022 Have you an interesting photo with a story you can share? Our Friday Hang Out with SAG - Friday 13th November at 4pm AEDT is hoping to hear from those with institutional photographs, they could be military, prison, school or a dodgy passport snap! All members welcome - free for members with full Zoom login details at https://www.sag.org.au/connect-online where you can also catch up on prior recordings from the last few months!

23.01.2022 Hands up if you are going to the beach this weekend! Before you do, remember to join us this afternoon at 4pm Sydney time with your favourite photo & story, complete the Education survey if you are yet to do, and check that you are booked in for some great webinars ahead!

23.01.2022 We are so excited that over 475 members have already taken the opportunity to tell us what their research interests are, make sure you complete our Education Survey so we can hear about yours as well! We have been interested to discover that 51% of those who have responded are currently researching ancestors in the UK and Ireland. County Clare is proving popular, closely followed by Devon, Kent, Greater London and Lancashire.

22.01.2022 Reading through some of our Education Survey results so far, we have found that not everyone realises that most of our webinars are recorded with recordings provided after the event to all those that have registered (to both those that could attend and those that could not listen live). Exceptions are usually when we are doing DNA case study presentations and we may not record for privacy reasons which is indicated on our events calendar: www.sag.org.au/events - we will be working through all of the feedback in the coming weeks as well, thank you for your responses to date!

22.01.2022 This Friday’s Hang Out was anything but twaddle though did include a Mr Twaddle! Brilliant hosting from SAG President Melissa Hulbert who connected the brickwalls of Cath, Kate, Sue, Jeff, Vicki, Leonie and Linda with some suggestions - we'll put the links in the Connect Online section of the website! See you next Friday!

21.01.2022 Masterclass in using the GEDmatch platform in progress at the moment as our Education Director Kerry Farmer takes us through some of the advanced tools working towards solving her long standing family mystery - more on offer here and always interested to know what events and training you would like to see us provide: https://www.sag.org.au/events/

20.01.2022 SAG members can read the interview with author Jacqueline Kent on Australian suffragette Vida Goldstein in the current issue of our Descent magazine: "The other thing that’s good about research is if you can actually find something that no one else has, that’s great fun. I did. I found out it was there to be discovered..." - see the full article for the opportunity to win your copy of the book (entries close 7 November).

19.01.2022 Happy #loveyourbookshopday & also a shout out to our fabulous Bookshop Manager Kathy who keeps our shop open to all online & well stocked with new & secondhand works: https://sag.org.au/Shop

18.01.2022 Our Legacy Software Users Group meets online this Saturday at 10.30am. The topic for this meeting is Using Legacy as a Research Tool. Everyone is welcome. Online bookings close midnight today, on the Events page of our website.

18.01.2022 Join us this Tuesday evening as Chris Fleet, Map Curator from the National Library of Scotland will be talking on which online maps are the most useful for family history research, and their primary content. He will demonstrate the main ways of finding these maps and viewing them online, as well as the range of georeferenced map viewers, and how these can best be used together. The National Library of Scotland now has over a quarter of a million maps available online, primarily covering Great Britain and Scotland in the last two centuries. This webinar is included in the Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 Season Ticket. All welcome Tue 24 November 8-9pm AEDT register at www.sag.org.au/events

16.01.2022 Have you joined the Society in the past 3 months? To claim your new member webinar, contact the Society on email or phone us on (02) 9247 3953 and we’ll book you into the event of your choice on a complimentary basis. Refer to the voucher in your welcome pack for full details & conditions. Looking forward to seeing you at one of our events soon!

14.01.2022 We are delighted to announce that Vanessa Cassin has joined the staff of the Society as our new Education Officer, charged with the development and co-ordination of the SAG Education Program. Vanessa has been long-standing SAG member with a professional background in education and training gained from the university sector and public service, including time at the office of NSW Trustee & Guardian. Vanessa is an avid family history researcher with a social sciences degree and qualifications in adult learning alongside the SAG Certificate in Genealogical Studies welcome Vanessa!

12.01.2022 Have you found something revealing in a birth, death or marriage certificate? We would love to see & hear member stories this Friday afternoon at 4pm AEDT - all welcome - recordings of prior events from our community gatherings & details for Zoom login at the Member Area of our website: https://sag.org.au/connect-online

12.01.2022 Have you signed up for our Irish research day: In Search of...My Irish Ancestors on Saturday 31 October yet? We have put together a brilliant program of local and Ireland-based experts. There is also an opportunity to talk about your own findings and brickwalls in the afternoon. Full details are available here: https://sag.org.au/event-4010513

09.01.2022 Thank you to our members! We have had over 920 responses to our recent Education Survey! This will take a little while for us to analyse and come back to all that have offered their support - which is most welcome. We plan make the draw for the webinar season ticket prize at our 11 December Hang Out where we will be celebrating the work of our marvellous volunteers. Thank you again!

08.01.2022 This Wednesday afternoon, our friends at the Chinese Australian Historical Society & the State Library of NSW are hosting a free Zoom event, the 2020 Henry Chan Lecture - Multicultural Citizenship Re-imagined: Engaging Migrants from China, is a topic of great importance to all Australians. All welcome - Wednesday 25 November 3-5pm - register via: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/multicultural-citizenship-r

07.01.2022 New to #genealogy or #familyhistory research or want a refresher to set you up and get organised to take on some brick walls? There are still places available on our online Family History Fundamentals course across 3 Saturday mornings from 24 October. Full details: https://www.sag.org.au/event-3894911

06.01.2022 Any family from the East Anglia area of England? On Tuesday 8 December at 8pm, our feature webinar is Tracing your Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk ancestors from a distance, presented by Gill Blanchard (Past Search). This session is included in the Nov-Jan season ticket and all welcome. https://www.sag.org.au/event-4027982

04.01.2022 For those in Sydney at the moment, there are a few places available for the Library tomorrow if you wanted to come into 379 Kent Street: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bookings-for-sag-library-ti

04.01.2022 Do you have fond memories of a family research trip or are planning one for post-COVID? Whether it is Longreach, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Lativa, we'd love to hear your story (and how to appease your friends/partner/children when you say you just need to visit one more graveyard?). You know the drill - 4pm AEDT Friday Hang Out with SAG - free for members & full Zoom login details to listen at https://www.sag.org.au/connect-online or catch up on the recordings.

03.01.2022 Typical 4pm on a Friday: suicide, murder, bigamy, illegitimacy, put before the courts, changing identities, secret husbands, unexpected prison records, dying twice, and celebrating finding grandfathers through DNA and certificate evidence - your Friday Hang Out with the SAG. What a session! If you could not join us live, the recording is now available for members to hear about at https://www.sag.org.au/connect-online. Thanks to: Sue, Vanessa, Christine, Veronica, Vicki, Jennifer, Danielle & Candy for sharing their stories!

02.01.2022 Are you stuck progressing your family tree or not sure about the evidence? Join us this Friday for our Hang Out at 4pm AEDT where we will be crowdsourcing My Ancestor Brick Wall. Members can find details of how to join the Zoom link via the Connect Online section of the Member Area - you may want complete the below template in advance to talk through your story - great to hear the wall stories from being convict picked or other anomalies! https://tinyurl.com/SAGbrickwall

02.01.2022 More than ever this year, family matters - great reading from The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/when-it-comes-to-heritage-famil

01.01.2022 Want some further help with your DNA test results? Our DNA Research Group for Beginners meets at 10.30am this Saturday 10 October. The morning will take you through looking at some essential basics and then focus on test results and how to interpret the data so you can start finding those new cousins. The session will be led by SAG President Melissa Hulbert. Places still available, register at: https://www.sag.org.au/event-3896146